After we were unfortunately left with no choice but to cancel March’s Coffee Morning due to weather conditions of the extreme kind (yes, that snow!) we were raring to get back to our monthly routine with another LDCM last Friday. If you haven’t been, it is one of our longest standing and most popular digital […]
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Mar
Mar
Our event last week, ‘The Work/Life Talk Show’, boasted the winning combination of a set of totally interesting speakers, some tasty Caribbean cuisine (on the house) and above-brewery location – what more could you want?! The Northern Monk Brewery co. hosted us in the top-floor of their Old Flax Store venue, which was decked out […]
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Feb
Feb
Remaining in tune with customers is arguably the most important challenge retail companies must consistently achieve to remain successful and competitive. In order for them to do this, they must understand their customer deeply, and be able to offer them exactly the solutions and products they want in the most accessible and convenient ways. The […]
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Jan
Jan
So, you want to build an app? Read on for our Top Tips! According to comScore’s latest report*, apps now account for 82% of total mobile minutes, so it sounds like an app is a no-brainer solution for all of us, right? Wrong. Whether you’re an existing business looking to expand your product set or […]
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Nov
Nov
Last week we hosted our first Reverse Dragons Den in partnership with our friends over at Entrepreneurial-Spark (thanks for having us!). The rationale for this fun event was simple: turn the well-known model of entrepreneurs pitching to investors on its head and give our team of entrepreneurs (all of whom have been through this process) the […]
07
Nov
Nov
Last week was LightStart’s regular Leeds Digital Coffee Morning AND Leeds Wellbeing Week, so we thought it was only right that we combine the two to create a special wellness-themed edition! With the help of our guests, we decided to take a shot at creating a digital platform that enriches inner (or outer) health in […]
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Oct
Oct
On Wednesday 11th October, as part of Leeds Business Week, we hosted the first of what we’d like to become a regular event. It was called Short Stories, and it was a very simple idea – we asked people to come along and tell a 10 minute story directly to our audience, sat in a […]
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Oct
Oct
LightStart presents… Last Wednesday we grabbed a group of inspirational people from all types of backgrounds and plonked them into the largest armchair imaginable (see pictures to get an idea) at our Short Stories event. To entertain and inspire guests our speakers relayed their tales of success, woe, adaptation, failure and the fun they had […]
06
Oct
Oct
This morning we dropped an old favourite into a new setting! The 16th instalment of the Leeds Digital Coffee Morning (aka LDCM) marked the very first event to christen LightStart’s new home, Platform, a swanky just-refurbished tower located next to Leeds rail station. Other than the brand spanking new venue, everything about the event was […]
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Sep
Sep
Digital Show’n’Tell – 2nd Edition Last Thursday LightStart took its guests back to basics with a good old fashioned show ‘n’ tell – but improved, because digital! It was only our second instalment of the DSNT, but despite its youth it definitely hasn’t failed to attract a wealth of Leeds-based talent with some exciting gadgets […]
